Sentences with phrase «radio light from»

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Redone rooms feature little extras, ranging from flat - panel TVs and iHome clock radios to canvas artwork by famed artist Aldo Luongo and white plantation shutters that add abundant natural light.

The difference is that Travelers is «wired» by infrared light, a medium that (along with radio waves) is already freeing office networks from the physical bondage of coaxial cable — and the fiscal pain of leaving it behind if you move.

DeVaul initially thought their biggest challenge would be establishing the radio links from earth to sky, but in the end, one of the most complex parts was hand building strong, light, durable balloons that could handle temperature and pressure swings in the stratosphere.

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

And that receding moment, once so vividly present and still so apparently alive (in part because of radio), is just like this moment, this Saturday afternoon, with its new show, coming to us live from Minnesota, where people right now are watching the red light in the World Theater in downtown St. Paul, waiting for the moment when it all begins again.

There are those who pray daily for peace, then awaken at first light to hear from the radio that a new war has begun or that an old one has taken more lives.

Indeed, the radio - telescope at Jodrell Bank can detect «radio» vibrations from exceedingly distant stars whose light - vibrations can not be received at all by any optical telescope in the world.

Early on, Friday morning, Chief Momodu in a radio interview with Accra - based Citi FM to throw light on the magazine launch said President John Mahama deserved praise from Ghanaians because he had done a «great job» for the country.

«I came home from Washington, went directly to Brooklyn to a tree lighting ceremony with Marty Golden and then to a real estate event at the Rex Manor that evening,» Donovan said on a radio program on Monday.

«As New Yorkers are faced with a punishing economic climate fueled by Gov. Cuomo's special interest donors and liberal career politicians, Congressman Gibson's announcement of an exploratory committee for governor is a light at the end of the tunnel,» said Nojay, a conservative lawmaker from the Rochester area and a talk - radio host.

When the atom drops from the higher to the lower energy state, it emits a photon, or light particle, in the form of a radio wave 21 centimeters long.

By finding places in the sky where radio telescopes pick up these 21 - centimeter emissions, astronomers can identify light from faraway, hydrogen - rich regions so ancient they date back to the era when stars were starting to form.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

The X radiation from both galaxies appears to be from 10 to 100 times stronger than the energy they emit in the form of light and radio waves.

Light from the galaxy is absorbed by the dust, emitted as infrared, and stretched to radio wavelengths as the universe expands.

In 1974, scientists detected a heavy dose of radio waves emitted from the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light - years away.

«The gradual brightening of the radio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Calradio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by CalRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Caltech.

Drake wanted to aim it at the same two sunlike stars he had observed 50 years ago, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, each a bit more than 10 light - years from Earth, to see if he could detect radio transmissions from any civilizations that might exist on planets orbiting either of the two stars.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

Instead of using visible light, Dame and others map the Milky Way by looking for radio emissions from molecular gas clouds and massive, young stars, both of which typically reside in spiral arms.

As the wave expands and the fire fades, the afterglow changes «color» from x-ray to optical light to radio waves.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

Vuckovic's team adapted an interference technique borrowed from 1930s - era radio engineering to cancel the unwanted classical light.

Using radio telescopes in Australia and optical telescopes in Hawaii, Keane and his colleagues detected an FRB and linked its fading afterglow to a host galaxy some six billion light - years from Earth.

They occur when charged space particles, typically from the sun, stream along a planet's magnetic field lines and interact with atmospheric atoms, producing not only optical light but also radio emissions.

If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect — the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition — say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)-- it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception.

With its radio link to Earth severed, Cassini's last «transmission» will be the light from this fireball, a modest blaze of glory that astronomers might glimpse from Earth.

Radio astronomers are truly in a Catch 22 - situation and they would not have the advantage that the optical astronomers could gain from better use of lighting.

Combined with the fact that bursts seem to evolve from energetic gamma rays to X-rays to visible light, which means they cool off over time, the radio data supported the idea that they are huge fireballs, expanding at near - light - speed and cooling as they go.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

The previous record was set in 2014 when two researchers from Swinburne University used the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to detect atomic hydrogen in a galaxy three billion light years from Earth.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

Mixing light from these dual frequency combs together creates a «beat» frequency shifted down to the radio band, low enough to be measured.

Instead of searching for the light from individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen atoms floating in huge clouds within the galaxies.

After all, telescopes can see every form of light, from radio waves all the way up to high - energy gamma rays.

Subtracting out radio signals 100,000 times stronger from our own galaxy and from television broadcasts, they detected the blurred 21 - centimeter signals from galaxies about 6 billion to 12 billion light - years away.

The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from ERadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Eradio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.

The continuing barrage from this repeating source, roughly 3 billion light - years away in the constellation Auriga, implies that whatever is causing some radio bursts is not a one - time destructive

Anthony Readhead of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech and colleagues caught two small, hot bursts traveling away from a bright galaxy called J1415 +1320 at near the speed of light.

When looking through 15 - year - old radio data from several observatories in 2013, astronomers found clumpy segments along a ring shape in our galaxy; when they searched for it in visible light, they came up empty.

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

That's why Falcke and his colleagues rushed to the Effelsberg radio observatory near Bonn, Germany, last April when two x-ray spacecraft hinted at the presence of a pulsar only a third of a light - year from Sgr A *.

«This year, observers not only detected gravitational waves from a collision of two neutron stars; they also saw the event at all wavelengths of light, from gamma rays all the way to radio.

After the serendipitous discovery of radio waves coming from the Milky Way's center in the 1930s, scientists realized radio waves, which have a longer wavelength than visible light, could reveal many aspects of cosmic phenomena not visible in other wavelengths.

Every time they spin, radio waves shine our way, like light from a cosmic lighthouse.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.

Using a combination of data gathered from powerful radio telescopes and supercomputer simulations, the teams found that a quasar spits out cold gas at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per second, and across distances of nearly 200,000 light years — much farther than has been observed before.

A research team led by Masaya Yamada, a graduate student at Keio University, Japan, and Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University, used the ASTE Telescope in Chile and the 45 - m Radio Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, both operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, to observe molecular clouds around the supernova remnant W44, located 10,000 light - years away from us.

Philipp Morgner and Zinaida Benenson's team managed to make connected lighting systems of different manufacturers flash for several hours with a single radio command sent from a distance of more than 100 metres away.